Portable safe



Nov. 10, 1959 D. A. WILLIAMS 2,911,814

PORTABLE SAFE Filed July 5, 1957 INVENTOR.

DELBERT ANDREW WILLIAMS ATTORNEYS United States Patent PORTABLE SAFE Delbert Andrew Williams, Salem, Oreg. Application July 3, 1957, Serial No. 669,844

1 Claim. (Cl. 70-14) The present invention relates to portable safes and more particularly to one adapted for protecting small items of value, such as currency, jewelry, valuable keys and the like.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a portable safe for valuables that can be carried from place to place and attached to an immovable object.

The present invention as the practical application to secure items in various locations desired, accessible to any authorized person having a regular key or a master key. Persons travelling, engineers, businessmen, in fact anyone desiring to secure their small valuables at any point of convenience other than larger safes as found in banks, homes or business ofiices will be users of the invention.

Where more than one person is authorized to use a number of keys on a location for various locks, this safe is very valuable, in the fact that it can be located where all authorized persons can open the same by a master key, and use the keys contained therein for opening the locks on the premises, limiting the amount of keys required in the operation of a considerable number of locks.

Other objects and advantages will becomeapparent in the following specification when considered in the light of the attached drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention shown anchored to a stationary object in locked position.

Figure 2 is a rear elevation of the invention partly broken away.

Figure 3 is a front elevation of the assembled device, illustrating the locking mechanism in unlocked position, shown partly broken away.

Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 3 which illustrates the locking shackle swung from the body of the safe after being unlocked.

Figure 5 is a sectional view taken on the line 5-5 of Figure 4 looking in the direction of the arrows.

Figure 6 is a bottom plan view of the invention.

Referring now to the drawings in detail wherein like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the several figures, the reference character S indicates generally the body of the safe. The safe S has a U-shaped shackle 10 slidably mounted on one side thereof by integral bearings 11 and 12 through which leg 13 slidably engages. A leg 14 of the shackle '10 is adapted to slide through a bearing 15 when the safe S is anchored to some stationary object and locked in position.

The legs 13 and 14 of the shackle 10 are parallel and adapted to be engaged within grooves 16 running longitudinally of the body S, afiording greater strength and security to the assembly. The leg 13 of the shackle 10 is adapted to pass through an car 17 of a locking mechanism 18 and be maintained therein by locking ring 19.

Locking notches 20 are formed on one side of each of 2,91 1,814 Patented Nov. 10, 1 959 the-legs *1'3 and 14 and cooperate with conventional locking bolts (not shown) within the locking mechanism 18. The locking mechanism 18 is of any well known modern design such as is used in connection with shackle locks for bicycles and the like.

This invention consists of adapting the shackle and locking mechanism "18 to the safe body S. A pin or dowel 21 passes through the leg 13 of the shackle 10 and is adapted to engage in the notch 22 formed in the outer end of the bearing 11 forming part of the safe S. This limits the amount that the legs 13 and 14 will pass through the bearings 11, 12 and 15 when the locking mechanism 18 is in locked position as illustrated in Figures 1 and 2.

A chamber 23 is formed within the safe S and is adapted to hold valuables, such as keys, jewelry and other small valuable items.

In the operation of this new and improved safe S for valuable items, the locking mechanism 18 is operated by the key 24, when unlocked it will slide down against the stop v19 on the extreme end of the leg 13 of the shackle 10 as illustrated in Figure 3. The shackle 10 is then moved to the position shown in Figure 4 from the dotted position, where the leg 14 disengages itself at 25 from the bearing 15 and the shackle 10 swung to the position shown so that it can be hooked over any stationary object as for instance the bar 25, Figure 1.

The locking mechanism 18 will also uncover the chamber 23, as best illustrated in Figure 6, permitting valuables to be entered or removed therefrom. For instance a practical application of this safe S wherein several keys for locks in a business operation could be stored in the chamber 23, then each authorized person working for the organization could have a master key 2.4 for getting to the keys for the various locks throughout the plant.

Having thus described the preferred embodiments of the invention it will be understood that numerous structural modifications and adaptations may be resorted to without departing from the scope of the appended claim.

What is claimed is:

A portable safe comprising an elongated hollow gen erally rectangular body having opposed open and closed ends, a pair of aligned bearings integrally formed on said body adjacent one side edge thereof, a third bearing integrally formed, on said body adjacent the opposite side edge thereof and adjacent the open end thereof, a U-shaped shackle having a pair of integrally connected spaced apart parallel legs each having a free end, one of said legs extending through said aligned pair of bearings for sliding movement therein and having the free end thereof projecting substantially beyond the open end of said body, a lock mechanism slidably engaging over the free end of said one leg, a lock ring mounted on the free end of said one leg retaining said locking member thereon adjacent the open end of said hollow body, said shackle having the other leg thereof engageable through said third bearing and through said locking member with said locking member detachably secured thereto in covering relation to the opening in the end of said hollow body, whereby said body, said locking mechanism and said shackle are retained together as a unit in both locked and unlocked condition.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,384,590 Bottone July 12, 1921 1,613,813 Westland Jan. 11, 1927 1,955,809 Hobbs Apr. 24, 1934 

